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Are Atheists Taking 1st Amendment Suits Too Far?

By Gordon Haber

…no compelling argument for allowing religious organizations to be opaque about their money. And besides, there are plenty of ways to steal from nonprofits even when they do file 990s. The interesting thing about all three cases is that they reveal the compulsion to sort out the messy business of religion in America once and for all. But the wall of separation between church and state is neither entirely solid nor porous. The better metaphor might…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…White. Black and Brown? What even is that? In a sense, Blackness is flattened; neither complex and multi-faceted, nor reflective of a shared history among a diaspora. It’s exclusive and yet elusive. Don’t get me wrong, anti-Blackness is a horrible thing whose heaviest blows are dealt to those who aren’t mixed, have no skin privilege, and aren’t read by the world as “ambiguous.” But, while people argue over what percentage of Blackness Harris has,…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…chaos because it obviates the commitment to first principles and to a divinely ordained order on which a theology and philosophy of morality and virtue depends. But the Catholic Church also has built into its DNA an all-consuming survival instinct, an awareness that evolution and entropy also are its enemies as an institution. From this fear, certainly for conservative Catholics, flows a consistently urgent desire to control this flux that is abs…

New Report on (White) Christian Nationalism and the J6 Insurrection Shows Just ‘How Dire the Threat is’

By Chrissy Stroop

…estion that God could be referred to by any pronouns other than the masculine ones is a cause for outrage. To them, making the nation “obedient” to God means putting right-wing Christians in charge, banning abortion, taking away LGBTQ rights, and putting prayer and the Bible in schools. Christian nationalists also tend to view contemporary political tensions in terms of “spiritual warfare,” seeing America as beset by “godless,” “satanic” forces su…

Are School Districts Getting the Message on Government-Sponsored Prayer?

By Lauri Lebo

…our community. None of the school cases that have been litigated are designed to keep anyone from praying or exercising their religious freedom.” Scales said he received plenty of feedback Wednesday, mostly from people upset over the public prayer ban. “I would [expect] that because it’s a part of the culture here, it’s a part of the landscape,” he said. “That’s probably one of the reasons it has not been addressed publicly by the school administ…

Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it’s the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasy

By Chrissy Stroop

…liance Defending Freedom. The “He Gets Us” spots feature all the forced earnestness of the “This is Your Brain on Drugs” ads from the 1980s, but none of the accidental hilarity and iconic qualities that make those spots such an enduring aspect of Gen-X and early Millennial nostalgia. I may be a little over 40 and only an irregular consumer of TikTok videos, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to suggest that “He Gets Us” is hardly going to register w…

New Poll: Repeal DOMA

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…a majority of voters support ending the federal law defining marriage as one man and one woman, and denying federal benefits to gay and lesbian couples. The poll, commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign, revealed that overall, 51 percent of voters polled oppose DOMA while 34 percent favor it. Independent voters, who were instrumental in the Republican House takeover, oppose the law by a 52 percent to 34 percent margin. Additionally, when read s…

US Archbishop and Vatican-Appointed “Overseer” Attends Annual Meeting of Women Religious

By Emily Baxter

…Assembly, the sisters officially called for gun control legislation and signed 800 postcards demanding Congress members to pass immigration reform. As LCWR past-president, Sr. Pat Farrell said to the Assembly, “Expressing what we really think and feel, with transparency and vulnerability, is for the brave of heart. It is, however, what we are being asked to do in our current conflict. All of a sudden the world is looking to us.” Like this story?…

Boy Scout “Perversion Files” Raise Questions about Abuse in Mormon Contexts

By Joanna Brooks

…of local members and leaders in addressing abuse—and even the excommunication of some victims and accusers. In 1995, the Church established stronger guidelines and new protocols for reporting abuse, including a 1-800 number for local clergy. …

Colorado’s Personhood Initiative Fails—For Now

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…do several things: (1) portray the fetus as an agent with moral standing, one in need of protection; (2) allow for the taking of guilty human life (since many social conservatives support the death penalty while also being opposed to abortion); and (3) contrast the innocence of the fetus with the guilt of the father. Indeed, on the last point, the amendment draws this contrast specifically: “No innocent child created through rape or incest shall b…